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# William Pillar

Admiral Sir William Thomas Pillar, GBE, KCB, FIMechE(24 February 1924 – 18 March 1999) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Chief of Naval Support and a member of the Admiralty.

## Naval career

Educated at Blundell's School and latterly at the Royal Naval Engineering College, Pillar joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1942 during the Second World War. He was promoted to sub-lieutenant (Engineering Branch) on 1 June 1944. An acting lieutenant at the war's end, he was promoted to substantive lieutenant (E) on 3 June 1947 (seniority 1 October 1945). Following service in the Korean War he was promoted to lieutenant-commander (E) on 1 October 1953, to commander (E) on 31 December 1958 and to captain (E) on 31 December 1966.
Pillar was appointed Assistant to the Director-General, Ships in 1970 and Commander of the Royal Naval Engineering College in 1973. Attaining flag rank as a rear admiral on 7 January 1976, he was made Port Admiral at Rosyth and then Assistant Chief of Fleet Support. Promoted to vice admiral on 2 April 1979, he became the first Royal Navy engineer officer to be Chief of Fleet Support. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1980 Birthday Honours, and was promoted to admiral on 5 January 1982. In 1982, he became Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies. Appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1983 Birthday Honours, he retired on 6 March 1984.
On retirement from the Royal Navy Pillar became Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Jersey. He was also Commodore and later Life Vice-Commodore of the Royal Navy Sailing Association, a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron, President of the Royal Navy Modern Pentathlon Association and a Knight of St. John.

## Family

In 1946 Pillar married Ursula Ransley; they had three sons and a daughter.
# William Lambie (Jamaica)

William Lambie (died 1832) was a planter and slave-owner in Jamaica. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820.
# William Nash (Lord Mayor of London)

William Nash was a grocer and politician in 18th century London.

## Life

Originally from Worcester, he was the co-owner of a wholesale grocery business in Cannon Street in the City of London, and known as the "opulent grocer". He was elected an Alderman in 1766, served as Sheriff in 1768, and on 8 October 1771 succeeded Brass Crosby as Lord Mayor of London, being succeeded in turn on 24 October 1772 by James Townsend.
# William Tooker

William Tooker (or Tucker) (Exeter, 1557 or 1558 – 19 March 1621) was an English churchman and theological writer, who was archdeacon of Barnstaple and later dean of Lichfield.

## Life

Born at Exeter in 1557 or 1558, he was the third son of William Tooker of that town by his wife Honora, daughter of James Erisey of Erisey in Cornwall. He was admitted to Winchester College in 1572, and became a scholar at New College, Oxford, in 1575, graduating B.A. on 16 Oct. 1579 and M.A. on 1 June 1583, and proceeding B.D. and D.D. on 4 July 1594. In 1577 he was elected to a perpetual fellowship, and in 1580 was appointed a canon of Exeter. In 1584 he was presented to the rectory of Kilkhampton in Cornwall, and in the following year resigned his fellowship on being collated archdeacon of Barnstaple on 24 April.
In 1588 he was appointed chaplain to Elizabeth I and rector of West Dean in Wiltshire. In 1590 he became rector of Clovelly in Devon, but resigned the charge in 1601. On 16 February 1605 he was installed dean of Lichfield, resigning his archdeaconry. According to Thomas Fuller, James I intended the bishopric of Gloucester for him, and actually issued the congé d'élire, but afterwards revoked it. Tooker died at Salisbury on 19 March 1620 or 1621, and was buried in the cathedral. He left a son Robert, who in 1625 became rector of Vange in Essex.

## Works

Tooker was a good scholar, and, according to Fuller, 'the purity of his Latin pen procured his preferment.' He was also a skilful courtier in his choice of topics. In 1597 he published Charisma sive Donum Sanationis (London), a historical vindication of the power inherent in the English sovereign of curing the king's evil. This work won him especial regard from Elizabeth I, whose possession of the power was a proof of the validity of her succession. Tooker traced the healing power back to (the legendary) Lucius of Britain; but he rejected the contemporary beliefs about touch pieces as superstitions.
In 1604 he published a treatise entitled Of the Fabrique of the Church and Churchmens Livings (London), dedicated to James I, whose chaplain he was, in which he attacked the tendency of puritanism towards ecclesiastical democracy, on the ground that it paved the way for spiritual anarchy. Besides the works mentioned, he was the author of Duellum sive Singulare Certamen cum Martino Becano Jesuita (London, 1611), written against Martin Becanus in the allegiance oath controversy, in defence of the ecclesiastical authority of the English king, to which Becanus replied in Duellum Martini Becani Societatis Jesu Theologi cum Gulielmo Tooker de Primatu Regis Angliae, Mainz 1612.
# William Parker (bishop)

William Alonzo Parker (31 January 1897 – 28 April 1982) was a former Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury.

## Family, education and war

He was son of W. H. Parker of Alkrington, Lancashire; he was educated at Manchester University. During the First World War he served in the Royal Tank Corps, which he joined in 1916, and was Mentioned in Despatches. He left the army in 1924 and completed his university studies, graduating as Bachelor of Commerce in 1926 and Master of Arts (MA) in 1939.

## Ministry

Parker was made a deacon in Advent 1928 (23 December) and ordained a priest the following Advent (22 December 1929) – both times by Leonard Burrows, Bishop of Sheffield at Sheffield Cathedral (Parker's title/curacy). He was a curate at Sheffield Cathedral 1928–1930 and then Bishop's Chaplain at St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem 1931–1937. He was then successively vicar of St Matthew, Gosport, 1937–1942. At the beginning of the Second World War he was a Senior Chaplain of the Forces (1939–40).
He was vicar of St Chad, Shrewsbury 1942–1946 before being appointed Archdeacon of Stafford in 1945, a post he held until his appointment to the episcopate 14 years later. He was also chaplain of the Order of St John from 1955 to 1960, and later sub-prelate of the order, provost of Denstone College 1960–1967. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 November 1959, by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey. He retired as bishop in 1969.

## Marriage and later life

In 1930 he married Ellen, daughter of Robert Hodgson (a priest) of Hooton Roberts, Yorkshire.
In retirement he lived at Church Stretton, Shropshire. He died at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in 1982, aged 95.
# William Wells (boxer)

William Wells (7 September 1936 – 2008) known as Billy Wells was a British boxer. He was an Olympian and double ABA champion.

## Boxing career

In 1965, Wells boxing out of the Wandsworth ABC won the ABA heavyweight title. Despite this success he was surprisingly left out of the England team for the 1965 European Championships. Three years later in 1968 he won his second A.B.A Championship. Wells was now boxing for the Lynn Athletic Club and defeated Coventry's Frank Carpenter in the final at Wembley.
Despite being the oldest boxer (at 32 years of age), at the time of his second title win, he was selected for Great Britain to compete in the men's heavyweight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics, where he lost to eventual silver medalist Jonas Čepulis of the Soviet Union.

## Family

His son Bobby Wells competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the Super heavyweight division.
# Willibald Cernko

Willibald Cernko (born 7 July 1956 in Knittelfeld, Austria) is an Austrian bank manager and has served as a member of the management board of the Erste Group Bank AG, responsible for risk management (CRO), since 1 January 2017.

## Early years and career

Willibald Cernko grew up with four siblings in Rothenthurm (now part of Sankt Peter ob Judenburg) in Styria, Austria. He attended a business academy and afterwards studied at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, which he left before completing his degree.
Willibald Cernko started his career at the Raiffeisenkasse Obadach-Weißkirchen in 1983. In 1985, he moved to Vienna and began working at Creditanstalt-Bankverein, one of the predecessor banks of Bank Austria. Cernko was deputy head of corporate customers between 1996 and 1998, before joining the Bank Austria management board in 2000 with responsibility for the bank's corporate business segment. Two years later, he assumed the position as the management board member responsible for the CEE region at the newly merged Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG. In 2006, he also became a member of HypoVereinsbank AG’s management board, responsible for the Private and Corporate Customers division. Between January and September 2009, Cernko also held the position of executive vice president at UniCredit Group and served as head of retail for Germany and Austria.
On 1 October 2009, Cernko followed Erich Hampel as chairman of the board of directors of UniCredit Bank Austria AG. Robert Zadrazil replaced Cernko in this position on 1 March 2016.
Since 1 January 2017, Willibald Cernko has been a member of the management board at Erste Group, where he serves as chief risk officer (CRO). Since 1 June 2017, his division has also assumed responsibility for the work of Erste Group’s Group Sustainability Office, with the goal of establishing sustainability, including the issues of diversity and inclusion, as an essential component of Erste Group’s corporate culture.

## Personal life

Cernko is married to Jasminka Stancul, a concert pianist, and has four children. His son Leonard Cernko was named "Chef of the Year" by Gault-Milau-Österreich in 2006.
# William Sullivan

William Sullivan may refer to:

## Government

* William J. Sullivan (1939–2022), American judge on the Connecticut Supreme Court
* William H. Sullivan (1922–2013), United States diplomat
* William Sullivan (Kentucky politician) (1921–2013), Kentucky state senator
* William C. Sullivan (1912–1977), former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's intelligence operations
* William T. Sullivan (1894–1968), Wisconsin state representative
* Sir Bill Sullivan (politician) (1891–1967), New Zealand minister of labour
* William P. Sullivan (1870–1925), Missouri state representative
* William Wilfred Sullivan (1839–1920), premier of Prince Edward Island
* William V. Sullivan (1857–1918), United States senator from Mississippi
* William F. Sullivan (born 1957), associate justice for the Massachusetts Superior Court

## Sports and related

* William Sullivan (cricketer) (1877–1924), Australian cricketer
* William Sullivan (field hockey) (1909–1981), Indian field hockey player
* Bill Sullivan (outfielder) (1853–1884), Irish baseball player
* Bill Sullivan (pitcher) (1868–1905), baseball player for the Syracuse Stars
* Billy Sullivan (businessman) (1915–1998), owner of the Boston Patriots, an original franchise of the American Football League
* Billy Sullivan (baseball, born 1875) (1875–1965), major league catcher
* Billy Sullivan Jr. (1910–1994), his son, baseball catcher
* William Sullivan (pitcher) (1864–1911), baseball player for the St. Louis Maroons

## Others

* William John Sullivan (born 1976), software freedom activist, hacker, and writer
* William Laurence Sullivan (1872–1935), Unitarian clergyman and author
* William L. Sullivan (author) (born 1953), American author
* William D. Sullivan (born 1950), United States Navy officer
* William Matheus Sullivan (1885–1947), American lawyer and art patron
* William Holmes Sullivan (1836–1908), British painter
* William N. Sullivan (1908–1979), American entomologist
* William Kirby Sullivan (1822–1890), Irish philologist
* Billy Sullivan (actor) (1891–1946), American character actor
* William "Rocky" Sullivan, character in Angels with Dirty Faces
* Bill Sullivan (artist) (1942–2010), American painter, printmaker and publisher
# William Suhr

William Suhr (March 31, 1896 in Kreuzberg (Ahr) – January 19, 1984 in Mt. Kisco, NY) was an American art conservator who led the conservation department of the Frick Collection from 1935 to 1977.

## Early life

Born to Midwestern American citizens living in Germany, William Suhr began his career as an apprentice to a stonemason, "specializing" in stone Madonnas. After three years there, he began studying at the Prussian Academy of Arts, where he met and befriended art historian Max Deri, who introduced him to the art of conservation and restoration. Since there were no formal restoration schools at the time, he was essentially self-taught. Working independently in Berlin, he built up his reputation through collaborations with art dealing firm Thomas Agnew & Sons.

## Career

Suhr's success in Berlin caught the attention of Wilhelm Valentiner, formerly of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, who became director of the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1924. In 1927, Suhr accepted Valentiner's invitation to join him in Detroit, where he continued his conservation practice. He worked there until 1935, at which time Frederick Mortimer Clapp offered him a job as permanent conservator at the Frick Collection in New York City. In this role, he was able to take commissions from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including an extensive restoration of Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece, now housed at The Cloisters.
According to his Frick Collection colleague Edgar Munhall, Suhr's clients included Jules Bache, Alfred Barnes, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Walter Chrysler, Kenneth Clark, Stephen Clark, Chester Dale, Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, Edsel Ford, Helen Clay Frick, William Randolph Hearst, Edward James, Samuel Henry Kress, Paul Mellon, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Georges Wildenstein. Though he dealt primarily with artwork by Old Masters, he also helped conserve works by contemporary artists Salvador Dalí and Lyonel Feininger. Throughout his forty years at the Frick Collection, he kept meticulous records of the conservation procedures he performed, including more than 95 cleaning reports complete with treatment plans, thorough descriptions, and before-and-after photographs.
Suhr retired from the Frick Collection in 1977. He died in 1984, survived by his wife Henriette. His papers are held at the Getty Research Institute. His letters are held at the Archives of American Art.

## Major Restorations

* Giovanni Bellini, St. Francis in Ecstasy
* Robert Campin, The Mérode Altarpiece
* Jan van Eyck, St. Jerome in his Study (Jan van Eyck)
* Hans Holbein, Portrait of Sir Thomas More (Holbein)
* Andrea Mantegna, Saint George
* Rembrandt, The Polish Rider
* James McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac
# Wilson Wilson

Wilson Wilson may refer to:
* Wilson Dobie Wilson (1803–1838), Scottish antiquary
* Wilson Wilson, Jr, a fictional character in the television program Home Improvement
* Wilson Wilson, a fictional character in Utopia (TV series)
# William de la Roche (lord of Veligosti)

William de la Roche was a Baron of Veligosti and Damala in the Principality of Achaea, and a relative of the ruling Dukes of Athens of the de la Roche family.

## Life

William's exact parentage and position within the de la Roche family is unknown. The 19th-century scholar of Frankish Greece, Karl Hopf, proposed that he was a brother of the second Duke of Athens, Guy I de la Roche, who at the time was supposed to be the nephew of the duchy's founder, Otto de la Roche. More recent research has established that Guy was in fact Otto's son, leaving William's identity open to question. He may indeed have been a son of Ponce de la Roche, Otto's brother, who was once believed to have been Guy's father, or alternatively a son of Otto like Guy, or a descendant of another branch of the family altogether.
Whatever his origin, William by 1256 became the lord of the Barony of Veligosti (Miser Guglielmo de Villegorde in Marino Sanudo's history) in the Principality of Achaea. The exact manner of his acquisition of this fief is unknown. The barony originally belonged to the Mons family, but was probably ceded to William after Matthew of Mons married a Byzantine princess and left the principality. Hopf hypothesized that William may have married a sister of Matthew of Mons. William also held the region of Damala in the Argolid as a fief—apparently detached from the lordship of Argos and Nauplia, which was held by Guy—and the two domains of Damala and Veligosti became united under the same title.
In 1257–58 he became involved in the War of the Euboeote Succession, siding with the Lombard triarchs of Euboea and the Republic of Venice against his suzerain, Prince William II of Villehardouin. As he was likely to lose his domain as a result of this act of rebellion, he was promised by the Venetians territory in the value of 1,000 hyperpyra in compensation. In the event, despite William II's victory in the war, he was pardoned and allowed to retain his barony in the peace treaty of 1262.
William was succeeded by James de la Roche, evidently his son, while in the early 14th century, Renaud "de Véligourt", son of James and Maria Aleman, daughter of the Baron of Patras William Aleman, is mentioned as "lord of Damala" (sires de Damalet), after the family had lost Veligosti (Véligourt in French) to the Byzantines.
# William de la Pole

William de la Pole may refer to:
* Sir William de la Pole (of Mawddwy) (died bef. 1319)
* Sir William de la Pole of Hull (died 1366)
* William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (died 1450)
* Sir William de la Pole (1478–1539), son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, incarcerated in the Tower of London for 37 years
# William Young (Australian politician)

William White Young (1852 – 23 December 1915) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Ayrshire in Scotland to farmer Archibald Young and Mary White. He was a coal miner in England before migrating to New Zealand in 1879, where he was immediately confined to a Dunedin hospital for a year. In 1881 he moved to New South Wales, becoming an engine driver by 1883; he was also involved in early attempts at unionisation. Subsequently a publican at Bathurst, he was elected to the corresponding seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1900, with the support of both the Protectionist and Labour parties. He sat as a Protectionist and then as a Progressive, serving until his defeat in 1907. Young died at Moore Park in 1915.
# Wilshire (surname)

Wilshire is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Albert Edward Wilshire (1863–1935), English organist and composer
* Brian Wilshire, Australian talk radio host
* Bruce Wilshire, American philosopher and professor at Rutgers University
* David Wilshire (1943–2023), British politician
* Gaylord Wilshire (1861–1927), American land developer, namesake of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California
* Henry Austin Wilshire, Australian architect
* Jack Wilshire, English footballer
* James Robert Wilshire (1809–1860), Australian politician
* James Thompson Wilshire (1837–1909), Australian politician, son of James Robert Wilshire
* Mary Wilshire, American comics artist
* Nicky Wilshire (born 1961), English boxer
* Spencer Wilshire (born 1945), Welsh lawn and indoor bowler
* William W. Wilshire (1830–1888), American politician
# Windows Activation Services

    For the antipiracy system, see Windows Genuine Advantage.
Windows Process Activation Service (also known as WAS) is the process activation mechanism introduced within Internet Information Services v7.0.
Windows Activation Service builds on the existing Internet Information Services v6.0 but is more powerful because it provides support for other protocols besides HTTP, such as TCP and Named Pipes. Windows Activation Service extends the ASP.NET HTTP hosting concept (ASMX Web Services). As a standalone Windows component, Windows Activation Service is completely separated from the IIS hosting environment and provides a protocol-agnostic activation mechanism not limited to HTTP.
Windows Activation Service allows the developers to choose the most appropriate protocol for their needs. For HTTP, data transfer relies on the ASP.NET HTTP. For protocols such as TCP and Named Pipes, Windows Activation Service leverages the extensibility points of ASP.NET for transferring data.
These capabilities are implemented in the form of protocol handlers, which manage communication between the worker process and the Windows service. There are two types of protocol handlers loaded when the WAS activates a worker process instance: Process Protocol Handler (PPH) and App Domain Protocol Handler (ADPH).
# Wishing well (wedding)

A wedding wishing well is a fancy donation box that gained popularity among bridal couples of certain countries (with one survey done in 2004 on Australia allegedly stating that up to 60% of weddings had them), who have often lived together before marrying, or who have been previously married, and do not need any of the traditional wedding gifts. They are also sometimes found at showers to collect monetary gifts for the guests of honor, as well as wedding wishes or marriage quotes, poems and messages of congratulations. Wishing wells at bridal showers are popular in the NYC/NJ area. Most people bring small gifts, such as spatulas or pot holders, to place in the wishing well. Wishing well gifts could be in addition to gifts bought from the bride’s registry.
# Winter holiday

Winter holiday may refer to:
* Christmas and holiday season
* Winter holiday, a name sometimes given to the Christmas period to avoid Christian connotations (see Christmas controversy)
* Winter Holiday (novel), a book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome
* Winter Holidays (Vacanze d'inverno), a 1959 Italian film
# Witpoort, North West

Witpoort is a town in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality in the North West province of South Africa.
# Witty (computer worm)

The Witty worm was a computer worm that attacked the firewall and other computer security products written by a particular company, the Internet Security Systems (ISS) now IBM Internet Security Systems. It was the first worm to take advantage of vulnerabilities in the very pieces of software designed to enhance network security, and carried a destructive payload, unlike previous worms. It is so named because the phrase "(^.^) insert witty message here (^.^)" appears in the worm's payload.
The Witty worm incident was unique in that the worm spread very rapidly after announcement of the ISS vulnerability (a day later), and infected a much smaller and presumably harder-to-infect (because the administrators had taken security measures) host population than previous worms.

## Propagation

On March 19, 2004, the 'Witty' worm began infecting hosts connected to the Internet (and running the vulnerable ISS software) without any seed population. Within a half-hour it infected 12,000 computers and was generating 90 Gbit/s (gigabits per second) of UDP traffic.

## Effect of worm

Once Witty infects a computer by exploiting a vulnerability in the ISS software packages (RealSecure Network, RealSecure Server Sensor, RealSecure Desktop, and BlackICE), it attempts to infect other computers using the same vulnerability.
Witty launches these attacks as fast as possible, attacking a pseudo-random subset of IP addresses as quickly as allowed by the computer's Internet connection. It repeats these attacks in groups of 20,000, alternately launching attacks and overwriting sections of the computer's hard disk(s).
# Wolfgang Erdmann

Wolfgang Erdmann (13 November 1898 – 5 September 1946) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.

## Awards and decorations

* Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (16 September 1939) & 1st Class (14 June 1940)
* War Merit Cross with Swords 2nd Class (30 January 1943)
* Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 8 February 1945 as Generalleutnant and commander of 7. Fallschirmjäger-Division